Posted on 11/03/2006 10:48:49 AM PST by Lorianne
The scene near a mosque in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun after Israeli troops opened fire on a group of Palestinian women, killing one of them and injuring 10 others. The mosque had been the scene of an Israeli siege after a group of men, presumed to be armed, took refuge there.
Two Palestinian women were killed and another 10 were reported wounded when Israeli forces today opened fire on a group preparing to act as a human shield for militants in a Gaza mosque.
Dozens of women were gathering outside the mosque in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip this morning after an appeal on a local radio station. More than 30 gunmen had taken refuge in the building after the Israeli army began its largest Gaza offensive in months in an attempt to stop militants launching rocket attacks on nearby Jewish settlements over the border.
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Boy, what lousy human shields. Somebody should get their money back.
What brave Muslim fighters - hiding behind women and children.
They ought to be continually ridiculed (....but..it might
hurt their feelings.)
I'm so glad to see the Israelis don't treat women any different than men!
(Uh, if those are really women uder those towels...)
LOL!
Maybe they won't be doing that again anytime soon.
LMAO!
Well, certaily not with that group of "women!"
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Says it all.
Maybe there's a topographical problem, but why wouldn't the Israeli's screen off the mosque where the armed men are hiding and prevent anyone from approaching, rather than shoot at these women?
It's not good PR. I'm not faulting it, maybe there's a reason for it, but it seems to me as if Olmert just can't do anything right.
You only get to fire so many shots before the world intervenes, and it seems as if this was a wasted opportunity.
Too many women, too few Israeli soldiers.
The pali gunmen trapped in the mosque called for shields. the women enlisted. Why is the media allowed to get away with paining this as the ISRAELIs being inhumane?
Utter bull-shiite.
Freakin' cowards.....
Frag out the whole mosque and just keep hammering away.
anybody that goes in-dies...anybody gathers up the mess-dies.... just clean out the roaches. Every time...all the time.
Why didn't they just send in mounted police with clubs? (hmm, no, that tactic only works on unarmed Jews)
If I got it right, the woman were inside the mosque and came out to "shield" the terrorists inside.
ahahahahaha
Stone the ones that survive...
Screw that. Those skanky "women" are terrorists too.
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